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tapering and sharp -pointed leaves, in pairs. The flowers 

 large, delicately white, of five deeply-cleft petals, and borne 

 in upright, few-flowered, leafy, loose heads. 



GRASS-LEAVED STITCHWORT. Stellaria graminea. } 



Plated, fig. 17. 

 Stems straggling. Petals scarcely longer than the calyx. 



A more straggling and branched plant than the last, with 

 much smaller flowers. Leaves not so tapering and sharp. 

 The calyx leaves too are with three lines or veins, which are 

 wanting in the Greater Stitchwort. The present grows in 

 hedge-rows, and on heaths among the bushes, and is in flower 

 in May and June. 



O. S. Wood Stitchwort, found in the North ; Glaucous Marsh Stitch- 

 wort, Bog Stitchwort, Alpine Stitchwort, Many-Stalked Stitchwort; the 

 last two very rare and confined to Scotland. 



SANDWORT. ARENARIA. 

 THYME -LEAVED SANDWORT. Arenaria serpyllifolia. 



Plate 5, fig. 18. 

 Leaves ovate, sessile. Calyx hairy. Flowers white. 



A little annual very common on walls and dry places, from 

 an inch to six inches in height, with small, rather rough, 

 ovate leaves, in pairs. The flowers are very small and white, 

 inclosed in hairy calyces, upon short stalks, which grow out of 

 the joints of the stem, or else tip the upper branches. 



PURPLE SANDWORT. Arenaria mibra. 



Plate 5, fig. 19. 

 Leaves linear. Calyx sticky. Flowers red. 



A plant, growing on sandy and other dry places, totally 

 different in appearance from the last. Its stems are nume- 

 rous, and laying on the ground. Its leaves fleshy, awl-shaped, 

 and tipped with a white hair. The flowers a beautiful pink, 

 opening only when the sun shines, and closing up before a 

 shower, or in the evening. Indeed, like many other plants, 



